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Scorpion Gunship From Avatar

This is the awesomely cool scorpion gunship from the movie, Avatar, with the characteristic tilting twin rotors. It is completely realistic. The rotors are swashplate controlled and the entire rotor assemply tilts for yaw and pitch. It was a bit tricky to get right because the swashplate had to be scaled down so a very small size. Fortunately it all worked out and the end result is that it is very stable and easy to fly but somewhat sluggish due to the small and fast spinning rotors.

It is very heavily armed with 16 hellfire missiles, two cannons/grenade launchers and four 50 cal. machine guns. The scorpion gunship from the movie actually has 190 rockets and eight hellfire missiles but I decided that 190 rockets would be a little silly to replicate and that 16 hellmissiles would therefore be better. Better for chopping down giant trees too!

Be careful of the grabbers flying back and hitting the machine. Unfortunately, there is nothing to do about this bug except to take evasive maneuvers after firing the missiles!

I thank Drako for creating the thumbnail

Note that the yaw becomes a roll in the opposite direction during forward flight. This is a characteristic of the transverse rotor configuration (one main rotor on each side of the helicopter). So unfortunately it was be hard to yaw during forward but with some practice this can be used to make tighter rolls.


Block count: 403. I prefer not to go above 400 block because of lag issues but the scorpion has such a complex rotor system, vast armaments and many details on the fuselage that it couldn't be helped.

Controls:

Engine start: 1 or Right Shift

Collective: I,K (Makes the helicopter go up and down)

Pitch/Roll: Arrow keys (Pitch makes the nose go up and down, roll makes the helicopter move from side to side)

Yaw: J,L (Turns the helicopter)

Camera: F

Armaments:

Cannons: Left control (alt gr)

Machine guns: Period

Hellfire missiles: O, U, P, Back quote